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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Gohmert: Latinos Will Join GOP Just Like Black Voters Do

If you had any doubt that Louis Gohmert inhabits an entirely different reality from the rest of us, look at this video he did for the Worldnutdaily. He actually argues that if the Republican Party kills immigration reform it will make Latino voters like them more “just as you’ve had more and more African-Americans realizing” how great the GOP is for them. He does realize that Republicans lost the African-American vote by well over 90% last year, right? Oh, you liberals and your crazy, eggheaded, elitist math.

It is hard to know what effect this will have. The sad fact is that most Latino’s (at least here in Texas) do not vote. If and when they do it is hard to see much support for the GOP. The GOP might appeal to Catholics on the abortion issue but on every other issue they offer nothing.

There is a strong social conservative bent to many Mexicans I know, but as the generations turn over, and as the Republican War on the Brown continues, I really doubt this will lead to a huge turnover to the GOP.

And when they don’t, it’s because of the chicago-style politics of Obama, the free stuff they get from the gub’mint, and the funding of Soros that prevented it from happening. It certainly won’t be the toxic sludge spewing from the mouths of every GOPer out there.

Michael Heath, now you’re just being ridiculous. The reason his eyes get wider around black people is because he thinks that since they’re so dark he must be squinting.
On a side note, if you throw a blanket over him, he falls asleep. And if it’s a sheet, he thinks he’s a ghost.

A strange detail: He was an officer in JAG, so he cannot be a total dimwit. Presumably his cognitive weirdness is of the mental rigidity type, with selective perception bias, plenty of cognitive dissonance et cetera.

And in his home in Texas, he only associates with o t her wealt hy conservative whites, so it is a near-perfect bubble.